Ceramics and Glasses

Dr Florian Bouville is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London.

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Professor Finn Giuliani is Reader within the Structural Ceramics Centre in the Department of Materials.

His research interest is in small scale plasticity particularly of brittle materials.

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Dr Sam Humphry-Baker is a Imperial College Research Fellow in the Department of Materials.

His research focusses on the processing-structure relationships of energy materials and evaluating their performance in harsh operating environments..

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Professor John Kilner is B.C.H.Steele Professor of Energy Materials, former head of the Department of Materials and former Dean of the Royal School of Mines.

Professor Kilner is primarily interested in studying the exchange and diffusion of oxygen in oxide ceramic materials for applications in devices such as fuel cells, oxygen separators and sensors, and has been instrumental in the development of isotopic exchange-SIMS techniques to study these phenomena. Much of his work is now centred upon the development of the Intermediate Temperature Fuel Cell, Solid Oxide Electrolysers and Lithium batteries. He is now working on an  improved understanding of surface and interfacial phenomena, which is crucial for further development of these devices. In 2012 John was awarded the IOM3 Platinum medal for his outstanding services to the discipline.

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Dr Katharina Marquardt is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London.

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Professor Eduardo Saiz Gutierrez is Chair in Structural Ceramics in the Department of Materials. He is the director of the Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics (CASC). Eduardo is currently the coordinator of BioBone, an Intial Traning Network in the field of bioceramics funded inthe FP7 framework with nine academic and industrial partners. 

His research interests include the development of new processing techniques for the fabrication of ceramic-based composites, in particular hierarchical composites with bioinspired architectures, the study of high temperature interfacial phenomena such as spreading, the fabrication of graphene-based structures and composites and the development of new materials to support bone tissue engineering.

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Dr Sivaprakash Sengodan is an Imperial College Research Fellow in the Department of Materials. His research focusses on development of electrode and electrolyte materials for energy conversion and storage devices, especially for solid oxide fuel cells, protonic ceramic fuel cells and metal air batteries

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Professor Stephen Skinner is Professor of Materials Chemistry. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining, a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry and also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

His research interests are in materials for new energy technologies and is primarily concerned with the chemical and physical properties of solid oxide fuel cell electrolytes and electrodes and encompasses the electrical and structural characteristics of materials.

He has extensive experience of the use of neutron and synchrotron facilities to undertake in-situ high temperature characterisation of new materials and in relating the structural characteristics of materials to their electrochemical properties

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It is with great sadness that we received the news of the recent death of Professor Luc Vandeperre, our dear colleague, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Head of Department for Education.

He made a tremendous contribution to our Department and will be painfully missed by many.

If you would like to leave a Condolence message, please visit our online condolence book at Forever Missed.

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Professor Luc Vandeperre is a Professor of Structural Ceramics in Department of Materials at Imperial College London.

He has long experience in processing as well as in measuring and understanding the mechanical properties of ceramics and cements. As a member of the Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics (CASC), he currently works on a range of ceramic as well as cement related projects spanning processing hard ceramics for armour, tailoring mullite for micro-turbine applications, thermal shock of and conversion from cements of refractories, ultra high temperature ceramics for aerospace, re-use of ashes from industrial processes and cements for nuclear waste encapsulation.